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Profile profile for SahaA

Abeer Saha

Merrill Family Secretarial Scholar
Division of Work and Industry

Ph.D. History, University of Virginia (In Progress)
M.A. History, University of Virginia (2017)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia (2013)

Research Specialties: 

Science and technology studies (STS), global environmental history, and the history of American capitalism.

Projects: 

Completing a dissertation titled, “Animal Factory: The Rise of the Industrial Feedlot in the 20th Century.”

Working on a transnational environmental history of the Yamuna River of North India.

Completed master’s research on engineers during the Ozone Crisis of the 1970s.

Awards, Honors, and Special Recognition: 
  • Birdsall Fellow at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation